A people or acivilization that abandons its will to power inevitably perishes.
Here, freely translated from Guillaume Faye’s Pourquoi nous combattons (2001), are ten ideas I think relevant to this struggle.
*EUROPE is at war, but doesn’t know it…It isoccupied and colonized by peoples from the South and economically,strategically, and culturally subjugated by America’s New WorldOrder…It is the sick man of the world. [page 9]
*ARCHEOFUTURISM: The spirit which realizes that thefuture arises from a resurgence of ancestral values and that notions ofmodernity and traditionalism need to be dialectically overcome [59]…Toconfront the future, especially today, dictates a recourse to anarchaic mentality that is premodern, inegalitarian, and non-humanistic,to a mentality that restores ancestral values and those of socialorder…The future thus is neither the negation of tradition nor of apeople’s historical memory, but rather its metamorphosis and ultimatelyits growth and regeneration. [From Archéofuturisme 11, 72]
*IDENTITY: Characteristicof humanity is the diversity and singularity of its peoples andcultures. Every homogenization is synonymous with death andsclerosis…Ethnic identity and cultural identity form a block, butbiological identity is primary, for without it culture and civilizationare impossible to sustain…Identity is never frozen. It remains itselfonly in evolving, reconciling being and becoming. [146-48]
*BIOPOLITICS: A political project responsive to apeople’s biological and demographic imperatives…Biopolitics is guidedby the principle that a people’s biological quality is essential to itssurvival and well-being. [63-64]
*SELECTION: The collective process, based oncompetition, that minimizes or eliminates the weak and selects out thestrong and capable. Selection entails both the natural evolution of aspecies and the historical development of a culture andcivilization…Contemporary society prevents a just selection and insteadimposes a savage, unjust one based on the law of the jungle. [212-13]
*INTERREGNUM: The period between the end of onecivilization and the possible birth of another. We are currently livingthrough an interregnum, a tragic historical moment when everything isin flames and when everything, like a Phoenix, might rise reborn fromits ashes. [153]
*ETHNIC CIVIL WAR: Only the outbreak of such a warwill resolve the problems created by the current colonization,Africanization, and Islamization of Europe…Only with their backs to thewall is a people spurred to come up with solutions that in other timeswould be unthinkable. [130]
*REVOLUTION: The violent reversal of a politicalsituation that follows a profound crisis and is the work of an “activeminority”…A true revolution is a metamorphosis, that is, a radicalreversal of all values. The sole revolutionary of the modern era isNietzsche…and not Marx, who sought simply another form of bourgeoissociety…We have long passed the point of no return, where it ispossible to arrest the prevailing decay with moderate politicalreforms. [210-11]
*ARISTOCRACY: A true aristocracy embodies itspeople’s essence, which it serves with courage, disinterest, modesty,taste, simplicity, and stature…To recreate a new aristocracy is theeternal task of every rrevolutionary project…The creation of such anaristocracy is possible only through war, which is the most mercilessof selective forces. [60-61]
*WILL TO POWER: The tendency of all life toperpetuate itself, to ensure its survival, and to enhance itsdomination, its superiority, and its creative capacities…The will topower accepts that life is struggle, an eternal struggle for supremacy,the endless struggle to improve and perfect oneself, the absoluterefusal of nihilism, the opposite of contemporary relativism…It is theforce of life and of history. It is not simply the organic imperativefor domination, but for survival and continuity…A people or acivilization that abandons its will to power inevitably perishes. [227]